Topic: Do you agree with the Government's plans to filter the internet?

Weiss has neatly summarised both the pervasiveness and the freedom of the internet: "each day, thousands of Australians utilize the internet for a vast and diverse range of activities. These include learning, networking, trading, business and leisure. One of the key advantages of the internet is that people can post virtually anything they so desire without repercussions or editing."Ã¯Â¿Â½ This, of course, contrasts with the censorship of other media, including television, radio and books by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy, intends to broaden state censorship to incorporate the internet in 2011 by forcing all Australian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to switch on a mandatory filter which will in theory restrict access to all prohibited and illicit materialÃ¯Â¿Â½. Such content will include underage pornography, bestiality and portrayals of other confronting illegal activities.

The Seat of Government

Government spending

English: Stephen Conroy

What are the problems, benefits and issues associated with this plan to filter the internet? This essay will examine its deficiencies and short-sightedness, arguing that it is neither feasible nor desirable. Specifically, this essay suggests that the model of an ISP content level filter is fundamentally impractical in that it simply could not achieve the task for which it is intended, coupled with the fact that it would have an adverse affect on internet speeds. Further, and importantly, due to the inherent subjectiveness in the terms of classifying material, content which remains not technically illegal would be subject to filtering.

Analysing initially the technological facet, it must be asserted that a preceding attempt at voluntary censorship, titled Net Alert, was unsuccessful. When Net Alert was originally projected there were also proposals to establish it on an ISP-level, but there was a raft...

Citation styles:

Do You Agree With The Government’s Plans To Filter The Internet?. (2011, March 21). In WriteWork.com. Retrieved 05:18, February 18, 2018, from http://www.writework.com/essay/do-you-agree-government-s-plans-filter-internet

More Civil Rights essays:

... from Anthony's National Woman's suffrage Association and founded the American Woman Suffrage Association. The NWSA attracted younger and more radical women who worked for a constitutional amendment to get the vote. The AWSA directed its efforts toward getting states to give women ...

... and Children (Women's Group) For Health and Community Services July 1995 By Christine Szikla EASTWOOD, S. 'Parenting After The Violence' in Parent Help Program: News & Information Number 8, November 1992, The Australian ... states ...

... cursory look at the history of this country should provide a serious critique to the idea of a level playing field. Since the birth of this nation, Blacks have been an enslaved, oppressed, and exploited people. Until 1954, when the Supreme Court handed ...

6 pages525Dec/19964.3

Students & Profs. say about us:

"Good news: you can turn to other's writing help. WriteWork has over 100,000 sample papers"